Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty /
Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch examines how sensing bodies continually run up against existing political structures. In this groundbreaking...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions
- Bodies on the move-political recompositions
- Negotiating influence: touch and tango
- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch
- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity
- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango
- Erring toward experience: violence and touch
- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden
- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation
- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics
- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy
- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics
- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do
- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.
